Jonas Ehrler was born in Wettingen in 1992. He completed his conducting studies with distinction at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli in 2018 and was immediately selected to become assistant conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de Picardie and the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France for the 2018/19 season. Debuts followed with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and Ensemble Modern, as well as being a semi-finalist in the inaugural Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition in 2020. During the Corona crisis, Jonas Ehrler has turned to local culture and founded the New Kurkapelle Baden, reviving the traditional spa orchestra in his hometown in Switzerland.
Jonas Ehrler has previously conducted school concerts with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the St Christophorus Chamber Orchestra in Vilnius and the Orchestre Quipasseparlà in Lausanne. In the operatic field, he has already conducted works such as La traviata and Eugene Onegin.
From 2017 to 2019 Jonas Ehrler held the Music Theatre of Today Academy scholarship from the Deutsche Bank Foundation and he continues to be supported by the Willem Mengelberg Foundation. He has also received valuable inspiration from figures such as Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Peter Eötvös.
